Day: 1 October 2002

Firsts for second city

The Main Drainage Scheme gives Cork its first WwTW and city centre sewerage system

Hirers reach out into extended markets

Grounds maintenance is proving an expanding market for groundcare equipment across the range, serving the needs of both the municipal and private areas. LAWE tracks trends in this fast moving sector

Innovative services open up new options

Manufacturers of waste and environmental vehicles and equipment, specialist hire and rental companies, plus national and international finance and leasing groups, are providing a growing range of hire and financing options to waste and transport management in both the public and private sectors. LAWE reports on some of the latest developments.

Save energy through cunning control

Understand how using electronic controls can help significantly reduce a cost you thought you’d already optimised. Terry West, sales and service manager at Energy Technology & Control Ltd, shows how energy can be saved by changing from mechanical to electronic control on industrial burners.

Enhance company profits

Enhanced Capital Allowances (ECAs) allow companies purchasing energy efficient equipment from an approved list to reclaim the full capital allowance against tax in the first year. The scheme has just been extended to include space heating equipment. Simon Hartles, of Ambi-Rad Ltd, looks how this will affect industrial users.

Power (with no strings attached)

Beat the Climate Change Levy liabilities by using combined heat and power. Peter Walker is managing director of EcoCentroGen, specialist in financing the design, construction, operation and maintenance of energy-efficient and environmentally-responsible energy centres, providing energy on a metered ‘pay as you use’ basis.

Industry’s contamination battlefield

Debbie Hamblin, an environmental consultant within Carl Bro UK’s corporate environmental management expertise centre, spells out IPPC.

A new look at remediation

CL:AIRE, an organisation established to demonstrate remediation research and technologies on contaminated sites, continues to attract innovative projects to its portfolio. Paul Beck, chief executive of CL:AIRE, highlights a few.

CLEA: light at the end of the tunnel?

Jo Strange, associate director of Card Geotechnics Ltd, explains the government’s newly published Contaminated Land Exposure Assessment, CLEA.

A better climate for business

Jason Rayfield examines how participation in the UK Emissions Trading Scheme can help companies to cost-effectively reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol.

Contaminated land and the law

Part IIA of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 has introduced a new regulatory regime for the identification and remediation of contaminated land, which has been coming into effect over the last couple of years. This regime provides, for the first time, a statutory definition of ‘contaminated land’, which is based on risks of significant harm to human health and the environment, or pollution of controlled waters. Matthew Whitehead, Technical Advisor at the Environment Agency outlines the workings of the new legislation.

Groundbreaking solutions for remediation using bacteria

Bacteria lower costs and are reliable – when they are cleaning up contaminated land, at least. But which bioremediation technologies are the best on the commercial scale? Biotechnology organisation BIO-WISE and construction industry body the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) have been working together for 18 months on a project that demonstrates the best of the best.

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